[ltp] Thinking of leaving Thinkpads

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:35:23AM +0200, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> Jesse Sheidlower:
> 
> > I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and then 10.04 beta on an x301 and
> > a W500 with no problems at all, everything worked out of the box.
> 
> What’s the state of graphics performance on the X301?
> 
> I’m sticking to Ubuntu 9.04 on my X301, because both 9.10 and
> 10.04 use newer Intel video drivers (without support for some
> crucial three-letter acronym) and the 3D performance is definitely
> worse (framerate in glxgears is almost exactly halved, for example).

I don't know, to be honest. I don't do anything
graphics-intensive, and the default install works fine for my
needs, so I never looked into it further.

Similarly, on the W500 I'm just using the integrated graphics
chip, not the fancy secondary one, because something or other
didn't work properly and it was easier to just use the onboard
one because it doesn't matter.

But if there's something I can run to give you statistics,
without reinstalling the OS or whatever, I'm happy to do so.

Jesse Sheidlower